IV CONTENTS. 



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The control of Texas root rot of cotton. Shear and Miles 247 



Potato spraying experiments, Jones and Giddings 247 



The blaclileg disease of the potato, Jones 248 



The leaf-hlotch disease of the potato, Jones and Pomeroy 248 



Bitter pit in apples, Farmer 248 



The leaf-spot fungus of apple and other fruit trees. Sheldon 249 



Die back of peach trees, Rolfs 249 



The American goosehen-y mildew during the summer of 19()(), Lind 250 



A coffee disease in Salvadoi*. Guzman 2r)0 



The fungus parasites of the tea plant, von Speschnew 250 



A serious chestnut disease. Mnrrill 2.50 



A new chestnut disease, Murrill 251 



Is it possible to combat the nematode by means of fertilizers? Yiramer 251 



A select bibliography of Italian mycology, Traverso 251 



ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY- — ENTOMOLOGY. 



The game warden of to-day, Williams, jr 251 



The birds of North and Middle America. Kidgw.ay 251 



The birds of the Chicago area, Woodruff 251 



The birds of Iowa, Ander.son 251 



Birds that eat scale insects, McAfee 251 



Cage-bird traffic of the United States. Oldys ; 251 



Food habits of Kansas lizards and batrachians, Hartman 252 



Is the (iila monster a ])oisonous reptile"/ Snow 2.52 



Sex differentiation in larv.al insects. Kellogg 252 



Report of the entomologists. C. II. and H. T. Fernald . i 252 



Three injurious insects 2.52 



Contribution to physiology of uniseum beetle, Ewart 252 



Acariosis of oats. Marchal : 2.52 



Hylemii'ia coarctata. Bchnier 25."! 



Some recent studies of the Mexican cotton Itoll weevil. Hunter 25:'. 



The Duki fig-tree borer of Baluchistan. Stebl)ing 25.'> 



Parasites of the gra])evine. Durand 2.5.". 



The bialogy and means of combating phylloxera, Moritz 2,5.". 



Parasites of the olive fly, Silvestri 25". 



Insects injurious to wood in Italy, Cecconi 25.". 



The large larch sawfly 25." 



Bonibi/.r piiii. RihMg 254 



The development of the larvie of Hypoderma hovia, Jost 254 



The role of the wood tick in Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Ricketts 254 



Ticks on fowls, Hempel 254 



The comparative effect of certain poisons on insects, Barsacq 2.54 



The zoological bulletin of the division of zoology. Surface 255 



Early spring applications of insecticides for the oyster-shell scale. The 



occurrence and distribution of San Jose scale in Vermont, Stuart 255 



Lime-suli)hur washes for the San ,Jose scale. Quaintance 255 



Bacteriological studies on foul brood and sour brood of bees, Burri 255 



Report on a disease of bees in the Isle of Wight. Imms 255 



The bee epidemic in the Isle of Wight 25() 



Annual report of the royal sericultural station. Padua 250 



Some silkworm moth reflexes. Kellogg 256 



Consumption of mull)erry leaves and quality and quantity of silk, Bucci 257 



Flaccidity of the silkworm, Ciarpella 257 



FOODS — HUMAN NUTRITION. 



Hygiene of nutrition, Rouget and Dopter 257 



Nutrition investigations of Office of Experiment Stations, Langworthy 257 



Food value of corn and corn products. Woods 257 



Nuts and their uses as food. Jaffa 258 



Infant feeding and infant mortality among the Chinese. Wiens 258 



A plea for the use of oatmeal in the dietary of children. Watson 258 



Buttermilk feeding. Carpenter 2.5S 



Milling characteristics of Australasian wheats, Guthrie and Norris 250 



Structure of the starch grain, Kraemer 2.59 



The chemical composition of cooked vegetable foods, II, Williams 2.59 



